Fentanyl “mass-overdose events” have been reported in at least seven U.S. cities in recent months. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate,” the DEA warned.
Such events have been driven by fentanyl, which is found in all 50 U.S. states. Drug traffickers are "driving addiction" and increasing profits by mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs, such as cocaine and fake prescription pills, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram"Tragically, many overdose victims have no idea they are ingesting deadly fentanyl, until it’s too late," Milgram said.
"This is creating a frightening nationwide trend where many overdose victims are dying after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl," the DEA said in its warning letter. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be up to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and thePharmaceutical fentanyl was developed for pain management treatment of cancer patients and applied in a patch on the skin.
FILE IMAGE - A person shoots up a mix of heroin and fentanyl on a street on July 19, 2021, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Fentanyl poisonings are at an all-time high," Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead, the South Dakota chair of the Drug Enforcement Committee, said in a statement. "These are not isolated incidents. These are happening in every state and every county in America, leaving behind grieving families."
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